Val Lee's Writings

President Obama wants Israel to forfeit more land to Palestinians. It is rightly called land greed; but who in this administration will state so? The Philistines want all of Israel, not merely a portion. Behind the scenes exists the confirming statements. It is all about a powerful Palestinian (Philistine) State.

Our president has elevated the Muslim Brotherhood, as an honorable and peaceful organization, made of men in shinning armor. Well, they are not so peaceful, endorsing attacks on Israel—God’s chosen nation. We see Israel’s elite-ness formed in the book of Genesis. This land will be rightfully placed in her hands one day, under King Jesus Christ. He will stand with the people of His blood.

The Egyptian Brotherhood has stood with Osama bin Laden in his deathblow to America. Bin Laden was once a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. He inherited great wealth from his father’s (Mohammed Awad bin Laden) business that allowed his terrorist ambitions to flourish. America had part in the bin Laden family’s lucrative enterprises.

Here is a video and article from CBS News regarding this family. The man interviewed is employed by the bin Laden family. I do not believe he is completely honest. I would not be surprised if he was hired to paint a pretty picture of this family. Other facts reveal the contrary regarding bin Laden’s family wealth and his inheritance. His “family was ordered to sever his £4million-a-year trust fund.” The family is Muslim in religion and Saudi Arabian in nationality. Muslims hate Jews and only use Americans for personal gain. They are not honest about their true feelings. They curse Americans in their hearts while smiling at them. They laugh at our stupidity.

News from August 2010: “On August 31, the Muslim Brotherhood-associated ‘Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations’ (CCMO) will bring 25-30 Muslim leaders of 20 national Muslim groups to attend a special workshop presented by the White House and U.S. Government agencies (Agriculture, Education, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services etc.) to provide the groups “funding, government assistance and resources.” The organizers pledge to provide ‘direct access’ and ‘cut through red tape.’ Government and Muslim groups will hold an Iftar dinner (breaking the fast of Ramadan) after the workshop.”

There is no true compassion or concern for the death of Border Agent, Brian Terry, who was murdered while protecting our borders. Obama never attended Brian Terry’s funeral or gave a speech concerning his sacrifice in the line of duty. He never phoned the family or declared a day of mourning on his behalf. President Obama’s administration desires total concealment of this incident.

While law-abiding Americans are told they have no right to own a gun, this administration oversaw the selling of guns to Mexican, drug dealing murderers. Agent Terry was not allowed to have a gun; he was only allowed a bean bag gun to protect America’s borders.

Internet News Facts: In December of last year, Border Agent Brian Terry was killed by Mexican gang members in an Arizona border shootout. Two of the weapons recovered from the scene had been part of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF)’s “Project Gunrunner,”a plot whereby thousands of firearms were deliberately sold to known straw purchasers for Mexican drug cartels, then assisted across the border by the ATF itself. On May 4th, Obama regime Attorney General Eric Holder sat before the House Judiciary Committee, evading California Representative Darrell Issa’s questions about the Justice Department’s involvement in ATF’s ultimately deadly Gunrunner scheme.

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Is America becoming a huge, terrorist state? Here is aninterview with President Obama’s terrorist friend, Bernadine Dohrn. She was the assistant to Bill Ayres. She is also his wife.

Christians do not have to look long and hard to understand that our nation is in need of prayer. President Obama and his administration need to walk in God’s will. In Biblical obedience, we need to beseech for the salvation of those who oversee this powerful nation. We pray within God’s will when we plead, “May Thy will be performed on earth as it is in heaven.”

Additional information on bin Laden:

Bin Laden born in wealth and prestige:

Photo in Newsweek Magazine: http://www.newsweek.com/2011/05/05/newsbeast-may-6-2011.html of bin Laden with his family on vacation in Sweden in 1971. He had 53 siblings or more. His father had been married 22 times. Photo details: “1971 Falun, Sweden— In his Al Qaeda biography, Osama bin Laden claimed never to have left the Middle East. But here he is, second from right, with 21 other members of the wealthy Saudi clan on a family trip to Sweden, where one of the elder brothers was doing business with Volvo. The image of a young Osama, smiling in blue bell-bottoms and a chartreuse sweater, belies the darker shadow of his adult self, bearded and in military garb, hiding in caves and orchestrating violence around the globe. DNA from one of Osama’s sisters was used to identify the terrorist leader’s body after Sunday’s successful raid.”

“Former counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke has testified that he approved these flights, stating that “it was a conscious decision with complete review at the highest levels of the State Department and the FBI and the White House.” Testimony of Richard Clarke, Former Counterterrorism Chief, National Security Council, before The Senate Judiciary Committee, September 3, 2003.9/11 Commission, 8/21/2004, PP. 196-197, 209

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“Bin Laden studied economics and business administration at King Abdulaziz University. Some reports suggest bin Laden earned a degree in civil engineering in 1979, or a degree in public administration in 1981.”

Osama Bin Laden profile: How a boy born into wealth and privilege became the world’s most wanted man

By Alun Palmer, Daily Mirror 3/05/2011

He was born into great wealth and privilege, but Osama bin Laden used his fortune and education to wage war on the West.

In the process, he became the world’s most wanted man.

His father was Mohammed Awad bin Laden, a former Yemeni labourer who became Saudi Arabia’s richest construction magnate.

Mohammed amassed his fortune from contracts with the Saudi royal family in the 50s, rebuilding 80% of the kingdom’s roads.

His mother Alia – one of dad-of-52 Mohammed’s reported 11 wives – was called “the slave” because she was Syrian while Osama was the “son of the slave”.

Soon after Osama was born in 1957, Mohammed divorced Chanel suit-wearing Alia, who went on to marry an executive in the bin Laden company.

Osama was raised a devout Wahhabi Muslim living a life of luxury, yet some say his sense of alienation began with that early childhood turmoil.

In 1968, when he was 11, his father was killed in a plane crash. Bin Laden’s share of Mohammed’s vast fortune was significantly less than the reported £180 million, but it was still a treasure chest that helped fund decades of fighting.

From the age of 13, bin Laden attended the prestigious Al-Thager Model School, in Jeddah – one teacher recalled him as a tall, polite pupil. Later he went to the King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah.

But in his teens he became drawn to Islam. His father’s firm won contracts to rebuild the Mecca and Medina mosques. And unlike his brothers, who went to the West for their education, he stayed in Saudi where universities welcomed radical Islamists – including the Muslim Brotherhood – on to the teaching staff.

These radical teachers told the teenager that Islam had to be strictly adhered to in order to protect against the corruption of the West.

It was a lesson that bin Laden – brought up in luxury and decadence – embraced, and he joined the Brotherhood.

ENRAGED

University friend Jamal Khalifa said they spent their time studying and not watching films or listening to music as it was against the teachings of the Koran.

In 1979, bin Laden saw the Islamic revolution in Iran take hold. He was enraged when Saudi forces killed protesters who had occupied mosques in Mecca to demand a return to more traditional Islamic values. But it was the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 that made him put into practice his radical beliefs.

He saw it as an attack on Islam itself.

“I was enraged and went there at once,” bin Laden said later.

In 1981 he went to Pakistan and met with resistance leaders from across the Afghan border. His wealth and connections made him the perfect quartermaster for the mujahedeen and he helped build camps, roads and bunkers for the rebels before taking up arms himself. Those who fought alongside bin Laden recalled a brave guerrilla, unafraid of close combat. He espoused his hatred of America yet used support from US intelligence services in the fight against the Russians.

In 1989, following the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, bin Laden returned to Saudi Arabia.

It was here he started building on the foundations of al-Qaeda – which is Arabic for “The Base” – the terror group he initially formed in a rented house in the Pakistani border town of Peshawar in 1988. His long-held mistrust of Saudi Arabia’s ruling family turned to anger with the invasion of Kuwait in 1991.

He offered to mobilise his own force of Afghan fighters and was furious when the House of Saud rejected his offer and let America establish bases on Saudi soil.

The arrival of so many non-Muslim foreign soldiers on the sacred land was a humiliation for all Muslims, he felt.

“If Italy invited Muslim soldiers to protect the Vatican City, what would be the feeling of the Christian world?” he later said.

Bin Laden’s outspoken criticism of the ruling elite led him to be banished – along with his four wives and many children.

He set up base in Sudan and began rebuilding his empire. And the first al-Qaeda attacks on the West began.

SUSPICION

With his business experience he formed a trading company so he could import and export arms and explosives without arousing suspicion.

He also formed a web of companies to cover the growing international web of terror. Veterans of the Afghan war joined him and they set up terrorist training camps deep in the Sudanese desert.

After advocating the overthrow of King Saud of Saudi Arabia, his citizenship was revoked and the family was ordered to sever his £4million-a-year trust fund.

The first al-Qaeda attack happened in two hotels in Aden, Yemen, targeting Americans who were part of the international famine relief operation to Somalia.

An Australian tourist and a Yemeni hotel worker died in the blasts, which marked a switch from targeting troops to civilians.

More attacks swiftly followed but bin Laden, from the shadows of Sudan, was yet to be identified as the puppet master. Indeed, in 1994, it was said he was free to travel to London, where it was claimed he twice visited Arsenal Football Club.

But he soon became identified as the leader of a string of terror attacks. By 1996, under pressure from the United States, he was expelled from Sudan and returned to Afghanistan.

In the Taliban he saw his natural allies – fierce and radical followers of the Islamic faith who hated the West as much as he did.

His troops, wealth and world-wide network helped the Taliban secure the country after years of in-fighting following the Soviet withdrawal.

Bin Laden created his own private army and made it a safe haven for terrorists from around the world, declaring a holy war against the US. It was from there that he plotted and launched his attacks against the West, culminating in the horrific death toll and destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

He saw it as his greatest victory over the West and bragged of more devastating attacks to come. In fact, it was the beginning of the end. He was now the most wanted man on the planet.

For nearly a decade, he evaded the might of America’s intelligence and special forces.But as is now devastatingly clear, he was only postponing the inevitable

The holy land of Israel is a point of news this day. It is very grievous that our president and his administration believe God’s people, the Jews, should not be in control of the land God has allotted to them. I believe the Jewry should be allowed to protect their borders from Muslims who believe in “death to Israel.” The spiritual battle rages in many arenas as satan wants the Jews destroyed and always has desired their demise.

Whenever Muslims build a mosque it means victory over a nation or area of occupation. Someday the mosque on the Jerusalem temple mount will be destroyed and the temple rebuilt.

“On May 14, 1948 the ‘Palestinian Jews’ finally declared their own State of Israel and became ‘Israelis.’ On the next day, seven neighboring Arab armies… Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Yemen… Invaded Israel. Most of the Arabs living within the boundaries of the newly declared ‘ISRAEL’ were encouraged to leave by the invading Arab armies to facilitate the slaughter of the Jews and were promised to be given all Jewish property after the victorious Arab armies won the war. The truth is that 70% of the Arab Palestinians who left in 1948 – perhaps 300,000 to 400,000 of them – never saw an Israeli soldier! They did not flee because they feared Jewish thugs, but because of a rational and reasonable calculus: the Jews will be exterminated; we will get out of the way while that messy and dangerous business goes forward, and we will return afterwards to reclaim our homes, and to inherit those nice Jewish properties as well. They guessed wrong; and the Arab Palestinians are still tortured by the residual shame of their flight. Their shame is so great because in their eyes running from Jews was like running from women. So much for the blatant lie about Jews throwing out all the [Palestinian] Arabs!”

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE68000920100902 Reuters News September 2nd:
President Barack Obama, aiming to resolve one of the world’s most intractable disputes, has set a goal of striking a deal within 12 months to create an independent Palestinian state that exists peacefully, side-by-side with the Jewish state.

The hardline Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, rejected the peace talks and said it would keep attacking Israelis. Four Israelis were killed and two injured in two separate attacks in the occupied West Bank this week.

A spokesman for Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, said some 13 militant groups had joined forces to launch “more effective attacks” against Israel. Asked if this included suicide bombings, he said: “All options are open.

Jewish settler groups, meanwhile, vowed to push ahead with new construction in occupied areas of the West Bank, underscoring a central sticking point that threatens to derail the negotiations just weeks after they begin.
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Although President Obama tried to stop the desecration of Korans, Obama showed no such concern for the American flag. In June 2006, Senator Obama voted against the Hatch Amendment, a proposed constitutional amendment that read in full: “The Congress shall have power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States.” It failed by one vote.

In an official statement explaining his vote, the future president, explained, “a disservice to our country” and agreed that banning flag desecration “would destroy part of freedom itself.”

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I believe the planned Koran burning was to bring publicity to Pastor Jones. It was a silly staged stunt that fizzled out. But why does our president and liberals defend this deadly religion? Would our president and Hillary be upset if a Muslim declared he were going to burn a Bible at the 9/11 site? Of course, not!

The message is being conveyed, we must fear Muslims and never dishonor their beliefs. People will be killed if we do not. What happened to fearless America, a country that once boldly spoke against the terrorists of the world?

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News: President Obama concluded his press conference today with a statement on the importance of protecting the rights of American Muslims. “We don’t differentiate between them and us,” he said. “It’s just us. And that is a principle that I think is going to be very important for us to sustain.”

…”We’ve got millions of Muslim Americans, our fellow citizens in this country,” Obama said. “They’re going to school with our kids. They’re our neighbors. They’re our friends. They’re our coworkers. And when we start acting as if their religion is somehow offensive, what are we saying to them?”

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Remember Hitler murdered people to keep his personal records secret. Our president also will not allow anyone to view his personal records.

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Our president and his wife are satan supporters and they are leading their children down the same path: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OYH2TtSM8U&feature=related They support satan’s every agenda from murdering babies to promoting homosexual rights. It is no wonder they chose Harry Potter for their reading material.

Remember our president mocks the Bible:

How in the world can such a man call himself a Christian? True Christians love the Word of God from cover to cover!

We need to be continually praying for our president to turn to the Jesus Christ of the Bible. We must pray for all in office to come to the knowledge of the truth of God. God desires all be saved and come to a knowledge of Him. Christians were all dead in trespasses and sins at one time, before they were washed clean in the blood of Christ.

Mrs. Clinton and President Obama have blamed the United States for inciting terrorists groups.

Obama’s pastor, Reverend Wright, counseled and directed Obama for 20 years. Reverend Wright, stated the chickens have come home to roost, regarding 9-11. This message was given when Obama sat under his pastor without complaint. Sermon video: Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOdlnzkeoyQWe know Obama would not have resigned from his church if he had not been pressured. Obama stated at the time that he was saddened to have to do this, and he strongly declared he would never disown Reverend Wright. This church promotes homosexuality, sexual promiscuity in general, and every evil satanic political agenda.

October – November 1996 Bin Laden is quoted in October/November issue of Nida’ul Islam magazine as saying:

“As for their accusations of terrorizing the innocent, the children, and the women, these are in the category of ‘accusing others with their own affliction in order to fool the masses.’ The evidence overwhelmingly shows America and Israel killing the weaker men, women and children in the Muslim world and elsewhere.”

Isn’t it interesting that Bin Laden’s words are being heralded in America as truth today?

By reading this news article above, you will see our president does not believe in prosecuting terrorists. He does not believe in protecting our country. I believe he wants America to receive what she deserves, this being in line with his pastor’s teachings.

America continues to play games with those who hate America and Israel. They will not call a black cat, a black cat. Politicians and others never acknowledge the teachings of the Koran which explains the Islam warring mentality. No one opens the Koran and reads the passages that state Christians and Jews must be annihilated. This mind-set will not cease until Christ rules the earth. The Bible has all the answers and it has been pushed out of our schools and government. Now America has been set adrift in propaganda.

…“Let me say this as clearly as I can: The United States is not at war with Islam,” Obama said. “In fact, our partnership with the Muslim world is critical in rolling back a fringe ideology that people of all faiths reject.”

Obama came to Turkey at the end of a European tour of summits designed to restore ties to nations frustrated with American foreign policy, especially in Iraq.

In a closely watched address to the Turkish assembly, Obama continued a line he started in Europe, admitting American fallibility in an effort to rebuild ties with nations tired of America’s arrogance.

Obama, who downplayed his own family ties to Islam during last year’s presidential campaign, found them of greater use in the Turkish capital, telling a gathering of the Grand National Assembly that “the United States has been enriched by Muslim-Americans.

“Many other Americans have Muslims in their family, or have lived in a Muslim-majority country,” Obama said. “I know, because I am one of them.”

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December 10, 2008

Barack Hussein Obama, and Proud of It

Word comes from sources in Barack Obama’s camp that the president-elect no longer is going to shy away from the use of his middle name. Call him Barack Hussein Obama, and that’s just fine with him. Democratic pundit James Carville congratuled Obama, saying this is the president-elect’s full and given name, and that he should be proud of it.

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This is quite strange in light of the fact Republicans were accused of being bigots during the campaign when they would state the full name of Barack Hussein Obama.

America continues to play games with those who hate America and Israel. They will not call a black cat, a black cat. Politicians and others never acknowledge the teachings of the Koran which explains the Islam warring mentality. No one opens the Koran and reads the passages that state Christians and Jews must be annihilated. This mind-set will not cease until Christ rules the earth. The Bible has all the answers and it has been pushed out of our schools and government. Now America has been set adrift in propaganda.

Yes, our nation needs to turn to the LORD Jesus Christ. We need to be in prayer. (1 John 5:10-13—the Bible)

Quotes from Koran:

WILL CAST TERROR INTO THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO DISBELIEVE. THEREFORE STRIKE OFF THEIR HEADS AND STRIKE OFF EVERY FINGERTIP OF THEM. THIS IS BECAUSE THEY ACTED ADVERSELY TO ALLAH AND HIS MESSENGER; AND WHOEVER ACTS ADVERSELY TO ALLAH AND HIS MESSENGER – THEN SURELY ALLAH IS SEVERE IN REQUITING (EVIL). THIS – TASTE IT, AND (KNOW) THAT FOR THE UNBELIEVERS IS THE PUNISHMENT OF FIRE. O you who believe! When you meet those who disbelieve marching for war, then turn not your backs to them. And whoever shall turn his back to them on that day – unless he turn aside for the sake of fighting or withdraws to a company – then he, indeed, becomes deserving of Allah’s wrath, and his abode is hell; and an evil destination shall it be. So you did not slay them, but it was Allah Who slew them and you did not smite when you smote (the enemy) but it was Allah Who smote, and that He might confer upon the believers a good gift from Himself; (8:12-17)

“Fight those who do not believe in Allah…And the Jews say Ezra is the son of God; and the Christians say Christ is the son of God; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; Allah’s curse be on them; how they are turned away!” (Koran 9:29-30)

And fight with them until there is no more persecution and religion should be only for Allah (8:39)

When the sacred months have passed away, THEN SLAY THE IDOLATERS WHEREVER YOU FIND THEM, AND TAKE THEM CAPTIVES AND BESIEGE THEM AND LIE IN WAIT FOR THEM IN EVERY AMBUSH, then if they repent and keep up prayer [become believers] and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them (9:5)

FIGHT THEM: ALLAH WILL PUNISH THEM BY YOUR HANDS AND BRING THEM TO DISGRACE, AND ASSIST YOU AGAINST THEM. (9:14)
FIGHT THOSE WHO DO NOT BELIEVE IN ALLAH, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Messenger have prohibited, NOR FOLLOW THE RELIGION OF TRUTH, OUT OF THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE BOOK [Christians and Jews], until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and THEY ARE IN A STATE OF SUBJECTION. (9:29)

O Prophet! strive hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrites and be unyielding to them; and their abode is hell, and evil is the destination. (9:73)

O you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness; and know that Allah is with those who guard (against evil). (9:123)
And that you should judge between them by what Allah has revealed, and do not follow their low desires, and be cautious of them, lest they seduce you from part of what Allah has revealed to you; but if they turn back, then know that Allah desires to afflict them on account of some of their faults; and most surely many of the people are transgressors. Is it then the judgment of the times of ignorance that they desire: and who is better than Allah to judge for a people who are sure? O YOU WHO BELIEVE! DO NOT TAKE THE JEWS AND THE CHRISTIANS FOR FRIENDS; THEY ARE FRIENDS OF EACH OTHER; AND WHOEVER AMONGST YOU TAKES THEM FOR A FRIEND, THEN SURELY HE IS ONE OF THEM; SURELY ALLAH DOES NOT GUIDE THE UNJUST PEOPLE. (5:49-51)

The punishment of those who pit themselves against Allah and His Messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement, except those who repent before you have them in your power (5:33-34)

Believe therefore in Allah and His apostles, and say not, Three. Desist, it is better for you; Allah is only one god: far be it from his glory that He should have a son. (4:171)
What is the matter with you, then, that you have become two parties about the hypocrites, while Allah has made them return (to unbelief) for what they have earned? Do you wish to guide him whom Allah has caused to err? And whomsoever Allah causes to err, you shall by no means find a way for him. THEY DESIRE THAT YOU SHOULD DISBELIEVE AS THEY HAVE DISBELIEVED, SO THAT YOU MIGHT BE ALL ALIKE; THEREFORE TAKE NOT FROM AMONG THEM FRIENDS UNTIL THEY FLY THEIR HOMES IN ALLAH’S WAY; BUT IF THEY TURN BACK, THEN SEIZE THEM AND KILL THEM WHEREVER YOU FIND THEM, AND TAKE NOT FROM AMONG THEM A FRIEND OR A HELPER. (4:89)

As for those who disbelieve in Our communications, We shall make them enter fire; so oft as their skins are thoroughly burned, We will change them for other skins, that they may taste the punishment (4:56)

Surely they who disbelieve in the communications of Allah – they shall have a severe punishment; and Allah is Mighty, the lord of retribution. (3:4)

Allah ‘s Apostle said, ” I have been ordered to fight with the people till they say, ‘None has the right to be worshipped but Allah,’ and whoever says, None has the right to be worshipped but Allah,’ his life and property will be saved by me except for Islamic law, and his accounts will be with Allah, (either to punish him or to forgive him.)” (Hadith 4:52:196)

Allah’s Apostles said, “When a slave (of Allah) commits illegal sexual intercourse, he is not a believer at the time of committing it; and if he steals, he is not a believer at the time of stealing; and if he drinks an alcoholic drink, when he is not a believer at the time of drinking it; and he is not a believer when he commits a murder,” ‘Ikrima said: I asked Ibn Abbas, “How is faith taken away from him?” He said, Like this,” by clasping his hands and then separating them, and added, “But if he repents, faith returns to him like this, by clasping his hands again. (Hadith 8:82:800e:) [So, with the clap of a hand, they can do whatever they want?]

We must be thankful that Israel still stands firm. The Muslims and President Obama are at work to remove the Jews from their land in underhanded ways as Hillary promises 900 million dollars to the Palestinian Authority:

Friday, January 30, 2009 Despite its ouster from Gaza, Palestinian Authority paying Hamas military The Palestinian Authority is financing portions of Hamas’s military, nearly two years after its ouster from the Gaza Strip. The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs reported that the PA pays the salaries of up to 12,000 Hamas military and security personnel. The report, authored by Dan Diker and Khaled Abu Toameh, said the Hamas salaries were being paid by order of PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad.

Hamas means zeal. It is an acronym for ‘Harakat al-Muqawima al-Islamiyya, Islamic Resistance Movement. It was created as the armed wing of the religious revivalist Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan al-Muslimin) in Gaza, in 1987 or 1988. The Hamas Charter is virulently anti-Semitic and uncompromising in its goal of riding Palestine of the Jews.

“It is widely believed that the PA in Ramallah only pays the salaries of civil service employees in Gaza to encourage them to stay at home to avoid working with Hamas,” the report said. “However, PA Prime Minister Fayyad also pays the monthly salaries of between 6,000 and 12,000 Hamas Executive Force operatives in Gaza, in line with the 2007 Mecca national unity agreement.” SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt—Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday will propose an aid package of over $900 million for the Palestinians, but only $300 million will be earmarked to provide humanitarian aid to Gaza, according to State Department spokesman Robert Wood.

Play Video Hillary Clinton Video: Clinton calls for action to forge Mideast peace AP Hillary Clinton pledges $900 million for rebuilding Gaza (EPA) Hillary Clinton with the Saudi Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, in Egypt today Hillary Clinton began her first visit to the Middle East as US Secretary of State today by warning that the region must press ahead towards a peace agreement. She was speaking at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt, where donors are gathered to pledge billions for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip. “We cannot afford more setbacks or delays, or regrets about what might have been had different decisions been made,” Mrs Clinton said. The United States would pledge $900 million (£638 million) to Gaza, she added.

Saudi Arabia has already earmarked £1 billion, and it looked likely that the conference would raise the $2.8 billion that it is estimated is needed to rebuild the homes, factories and infrastructure that were destroyed in the blistering Israeli offensive against Gaza in December last year. Despite the offensive, which was aimed at stopping rockets being fired into Israel from Gaza, Hamas has continued to fire missiles over the border, and says it will continue to do so until the siege is lifted. Israel has said that it will not lift the blockade until Hamas ends its attacks and the crossing points are policed by the Palestinian Authority. Israel has also linked a truce deal to the release of a kidnapped soldier who has been held by Hamas for two and a half years. In exchange for him, however, Hamas is demanding the release of 1,400 Palestinian prisoners, including some of those responsible for deadly suicide attacks and assassinations in Israel. The picture is further complicated by the failure of Hamas and the Western-backed Fatah, which dominates the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, to overcome the deep differences which led to a mini civil war in 2007.

Reconciliation talks have made little progress. Mrs Clinton said that the huge sums being pledged today should be channelled through the Palestinian Authority and not fall into the “wrong hands”, a clear reference to Hamas, which Israel, America and Europe list as a terrorist organisation. Aid workers have warned that any reconstruction efforts will fail if pressure is not exerted to open the border crossings.

At present, Israel does not allow cement or steel through the crossings. “The situation at the border crossings is intolerable. Aid workers do not have access. Essential commodities cannot get in,” Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary General, told the gathering at the Red Sea resort. A Western aid official in Jerusalem said: “It all comes down to the single fact that until the Israelis remove the stranglehold on what is allowed in, all the Sharm el-Sheikhs in the world won’t change things one iota.” President Sarkozy of France stressed the need for Palestinian reconciliation as the basis for any progress, and said that he wanted to see a peace deal by the end of the year. Mrs Clinton, who warned Hamas to stop its rocket fire, said the basis for peace should be a 2002 plan endorsed by the Arab League, whereby Israel would pull back from the West Bank to allow a Palestinian state to be created there and in Gaza, in return for peace accords with the Arab world. Israel has refused to endorse the plan.